Phonetic Effects in Child and Adult Word Segmentation

• Published in: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research Vol. 64; no. 3; pp. 854 - 869
• Main Authors: Katz, Jonah, Moore, Michelle W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Speech-Language-Hearing Association 01.03.2021
• Subjects: Acoustic phonetics; Acoustics; Adults; Analysis; Artificial Languages; Asymmetry; Auditory Stimuli; Child Language; Children; College Students; Comparative Analysis; Computational linguistics; Contrastive Linguistics; Demographic aspects; Intelligence Tests; Language Acquisition; Language processing; Language Tests; Learning Processes; Linguistics; Methods; Natural language; Natural language interfaces; Phonetics; Phonology; Prediction; Reduction (Phonological or Phonetic); Research Methodology; Segmentation; Speech; Speech Communication; Suprasegmentals; Task Analysis; Vocabulary learning; West Virginia; United States

Purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of specific acoustic patterns on word learning and segmentation in 8- to 11-year-old children and in college students. Method: Twenty-two children (ages 8;2-11;4 [years;months]) and 36 college students listened to synthesized "utteran...